Our state now uses the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) to monitor student achievement and growth. It replaced the use of the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests in 2015. Grades 3-8 take the GMAS' End-of-Grade Test and grades 9-12 take the GMAS' End-of-Course tests. Both state and federal laws require school systems to annually assess students (BOE Policy).Read more about GMAS in Bulloch County.